Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being gauzy; gauzy texture or appearance.
Wiktionary
- n. The quality of being gauzy
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness.
Examples
“- Echidne Of The Snakes - women, the press, and gauziness.”
“Instead, the cameramen used lenses labeled in ascending gauziness: "A through D.”
The Huffington Post: Claudia Lonow: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Could I Be One Too?
“Karen O aside, Maximum Balloon tilts towards female vocalists (Holly Miranda; a woman called Ambrosia Parsley) with little to contribute but the gauziness of the just-roused.”
“A cold mist shimmered over the bayou like sheer curtains, cloaking the surroundings in a surreal gauziness.”
“This poem by Anne Marie Macari of New Jersey perfectly captures the gauziness of those lights as well as the loneliness that often accompanies travel.”
“Hersh should have acknowledged the gauziness of his proof.”
“Mr. DePastino gets behind the gauziness, fills in details and extends our knowledge of Mauldin's remarkable postwar career as a newspaper editorial cartoonist.”
“Either one little ruffled drawers leg sags down, or the petticoat is longer than the dress skirt, or the waistband is too tight, or mamma has failed to make allowance in the underclothing for the gauziness of the outer sheathing.”
“It had once been delicately blue and gauzy, but its gauziness hung in crushed folds and its blue was almost grey.”
“Very lovely was Lady Kirkaldy's impression as she saw a slender figure in a dark gray linen dress, and a face of refined, though not intellectual, beauty and sweetness, under a large straw hat with a good deal of white gauziness about it, and the curtsey was full of natural grace.”
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